Touch Medical Media (TMM) is a medical publisher with an in house medical communications division, providing dedicated digital healthcare channels and peer-reviewed, open access journals in six major therapy areas including Endocrinology, Neurology, Oncology & Haematology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology and Respiratory.Working alongside leading medical experts, societies and industry, our mission is to provide practical, expert opinion to support best practice for busy Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) globally, by translating published data into easily digestible and timely updates. This content is shared to an internal database of over 207,000 physicians and with further outreach to over 700,000 via 77 major medical societies who are media partnered with TMM. TMM's vision is to become the most trusted peer-to-peer resource for leading and time-pressured specialists globally who want easily digestible, practical, peer-reviewed, timely, educational and above all cutting edge content in a variety of open access multimedia formats, to continuously develop their knowledge, effectiveness and productivity.

Medical Publishing

As the backbone of the business, TMM’s journal portfolio includes 11 established titles which are designed predominantly for European and US audiences. The peer-reviewed, open access content is published rapidly and continuously online, and distributed in multiple formats. Content is concise, easily digestible, and comprise review articles, editorials, case reports, special reports and original research. Content is designed to keep busy HCPs up-to-date with the latest developments in their field. The journals are complemented by a variety of multimedia features such as podcasts, interviews and instructional videos to further aide easy and effective learning.

Editorial Boards
The journals are led by expert Editorial Boards, who assist in the commissioning of independent review articles and provide expert editorial advice on the most salient topics that will be of interest to our readers.

Editorial Policies
Touch Medical Media endeavours to publish unbiased, balanced articles and follow the publication guidelines as recommended by the ICMJE and in the Good Publication Practice guidelines. Please refer to our Instructions for Authors document here for further detail

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
Touch Medical Media requires all authors to adhere to the ethical standards as outlined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). Please refer to our Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement here for further details.

Peer Review
All articles undergo a rigorous, double-blind peer review, conducted by at least two independent experts in the field to ensure articles are balanced, objective, and relevant to the current clinical landscape. We aim to have the final peer review decision within 4 weeks. Instructions for peer reviewers can be found here.

Open Access
All articles are open access, which allows everyone in the medical community to download published articles for free. The author retains the non-commercial copyright of their work under the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC-BY-NC) license. Further information about the license can be found here.

Medical Communications & Scientific Team

TMM also offers all the benefits of a medical communications agency, serving the global pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare communities with a range of strategic and tactical services aimed at planning and delivering highly effective communication programmes in digital, print, audio and/or video. Key services include:

Christina Mackins-Crabtree is the Managing Editor for the Neurology and Respiratory titles. With over 11 years of experience in medical communications ….view full profile

ALPSP & Crossref

ALPSP
Touch Medical Media is a member of ALPSP who are an international membership trade body that supports and represents not-for-profit organizations and institutions that publish scholarly and professional content.

About ALPSP
ALPSP’s mission is to connect, inform, develop and represent the international scholarly and professional publishing community.

Our History
Founded in 1972 by 24 societies, ALPSP has grown to become the largest trade association helping scholarly and professional publishers around the world.

Crossref
Touch Medical Media is a member of CrossRef a not-for-profit membership organization for scholarly publishing working to make content easy to find, link, cite and assess.

About Crossref
Crossref’s general purpose is to promote the development and cooperative use of new and innovative technologies to speed and facilitate scholarly research. Crossref’s specific mandate is to be the citation linking backbone for all scholarly information in electronic form. Crossref is a collaborative reference linking service that functions as a sort of digital switchboard. It holds no full text content, but rather effects linkages through Crossref Digital Object Identifiers (Crossref DOI), which are tagged to article metadata supplied by the participating publishers. The end result is an efficient, scalable linking system through which a researcher can click on a reference citation in a journal and access the cited article.At the beginning of 2000, the world’s leading scholarly publishers joined to form the non-profit, independent organization, Publishers International Linking Association, Inc. (PILA), which operates Crossref.

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